DelayWebpage
Productivity
focus and distraction blocking
SHOW HN2020
232points
51comments
#219of 3,028 in 2020
Top 8%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
8 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score +0.18.
Idea: 8 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea for adding friction to distracting sites
From 4 comments
Love this idea. It would be interesting to see what different ways (AI) you could predict that a site is distracting based on personal and wide-spread usage habits. Some advanced…
mavsman on HNThis and the post yesterday about adding latency to websites reaffirms an idea I've been thinking about lately - adding friction back into digital processes helps break some of…
phantarch on HNAdded, shared. Love from first sight.
isodude on HNI read that post and wished that there was a Firefox extension but could not find out. Glad someone made one.
Ottolay on HN
Objections
Extension requests access to all website data, which raises privacy concerns
From 2 comments
Looks like an interesting extension, but unfortunately I would never install it given that "this add-on can access data for all your websites". As far as I am aware, this means…
iSoron on HN> Looks like an interesting extension, but unfortunately I would never install it given that "this add-on can access data for all your websites". As far as I am aware, this means…
ao0193344 on HN
Willpower alone or a delay may not stop habits
From 2 comments
This sort of thing has never worked for me. It's like the snooze button on an alarm clock; instead of hitting this relatively large button, even my half-asleep brain will…
Anaminus on HNIt works. Not sure if I'll keep it though. It might be better to just exert a bit more self control.
kwhitefoot on HN
Requests
Make the delay variable so users cannot learn to avoid it
From 1 comment
This is really nice! It would be nice (from my experience) to make the delay variable - - this stops people "Learning" ways of avoiding the always fixed length delay.
CJefferson on HN
Apply slow loading to a whole domain instead of a fixed delay
From 1 comment
Would it be possible to make an extension that simply makes everything on a given domain load slowly? I would find that more effective, because I wouldn't be constantly reminded…
stevage on HN
Questions
Whether the extension's source matches the listed add-on code
From 2 comments
Looks like an interesting extension, but unfortunately I would never install it given that "this add-on can access data for all your websites". As far as I am aware, this means…
iSoron on HNYou are incorrect. You can inspect extensions that you download to compare the source code to the github release, or even audit the specific source you have have downloaded.…
Anon1096 on HN
Alternatives named
LeechBlock
From 1 comment
There is also Leechblock which contains the same functionality along with blocking and some in-depth config. But this may be a cool solution for someone who only cares about the…
michalf6 on HN
NoScript in temporary whitelist mode
From 1 comment
The best extension to do this is to run NoScript in temp whitelist only mode. Every time you visit a crappy website with lots of JS domains that load JS domains that load JS…
superkuh on HN
Monastery
From 1 comment
Big fan of adding friction to my electronic devices. I have a bunch of Firefox extensions to grey scale, automatically block images and videos, and add a 30 second delay timer…
peterxpark on HN
StayFocusd
From 1 comment
StayFocusd had the nice feature that you couldn't change its settings for the current day. The only way to get around it was disabling/uninstalling the extension. The behavior…
AceJohnny2 on HN
Editing /etc/hosts to block sites
From 2 comments
In my /etc/hosts file, I redirect distracting websites to 0.0.0.0 to block them. There's nothing stopping me from enabling a website beyond the effort to type in sudo vim…
gbear605 on HNWhen I want to get stuff done, I just "block" sites in my hosts file, by pointing them to localhost. I even wrote a small bash utility [1] for that, so it's easy to undo changes…
smnplk on HN